Handling Priorities
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]A task’s priority helps Microsoft Project with automatic resource leveling (a process of fixing conflicts when a resource is over-allocated). In Microsoft Project, it is possible to assign priority values between 0 and 1000 (where 0 is the lowest priority). By default, tasks are assigned the value 500.
Working with Priorities
The priorities associated with a class are handled through the PRIORITY property exposed by the Tsk class.
- Priority: a task’s priority (integer between 1 and 1000).
Priorities in Microsoft Project
To check a task’s priority in Microsoft Project one can double-click a task in the Task Entry form:
Task priority in Microsoft Project
Getting a Task’s Priority
The following examples show how to get a task’s priority and write it to a console window using Aspose.Tasks.
1// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-tasks/Aspose.Tasks-for-Java
2// The path to the documents directory.
3String dataDir = Utils.getDataDir(HandlePriorities.class);
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5Project project = new Project(dataDir + "input.mpp");
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7// Create a ChildTasksCollector instance
8ChildTasksCollector collector = new ChildTasksCollector();
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10// Collect all the tasks from RootTask using TaskUtils
11TaskUtils.apply(project.getRootTask(), collector, 0);
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13// Handling Priorities:
14// Parse through all the collected tasks
15for (Task tsk : collector.getTasks()) {
16 System.out.println(tsk.get(Tsk.PRIORITY).toString());
17}